Publisher's presentation :  France loves to let her fingers twist the blond curls. She knows how to soothe Romy by caressing her skull to lead her into a semi-coma where the weakling body will be at her mercy.  

Toul, 1999. At nine years old, Romy is abused for the first time by France, a neighbor. 
Her childhood suddenly tears like a princess dress. Romy goes to war. From the age of nine to nineteen, we see her fight against the chaos that is growing, against the unbearable attachment she feels for France, against a social order whose rules she does not understand, against this female body that will become her main enemy.
The novelist paints, with an exceptional sense of observation, a social and geographical environment that literature rarely deals with: all the characters are soldiers from the Toul base, workers from Kleber's factory, canal dwellers, always described with a discreet empathy. A relentless, radical first novel.